One of Us Quotes

“We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact. Hjalmar Söderberg, Doktor Glas, 1905”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath

“Evil can kill a human being, but never conquer a people!’ *”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath

“Our answer is more democracy, more openness and more humanity. But never naivety.”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath

“Anders Behring Breivik was formally charged under paragraph l47 of the Norwegian Penal Code, the so-called terror paragraph, which carries a maximum penalty of twenty-one years in prison, with the possibility of extension, if the convicted prisoner represents a danger to society.”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath

“Gerd called life 'existing minute by minute'. Every single minute felt like a battle. Time went on but life had stopped.”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

“Why did you want children when you knew there was a war?’ Mustafa”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath

“What went wrong? Well, comrades, when the American investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, it was not just a bank going broke, it was a political ideology going bankrupt. The failure of market liberalism. It ended decades of naive, uncritical faith in the market looking after itself. It does not!”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath

“A society gets the graffiti it deserves,’ commented one criminologist on the street galleries that grew ever scruffier.”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath

“Through the book, I want to give something back to the community from which it sprang. My royalties for this book in Norway are being donated in full to the ‘En av oss’ (One of Us) foundation. The foundation’s statutes allow for the money to be distributed to a wide range of causes nationally and internationally, in the areas of development, education, sport, culture and the environment. I have chosen to let those who contributed most to the book decide which causes will receive support. I think that would be in the spirit of their children.”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath

“Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly.”
― Åsne Seierstad, One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway